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More parents concerned about safety of flu vaccine

Medical workers prepare to give flu shots at a building of the Korea Association of Health Promotion in Seoul, Monday, as medical institutions across the country began a free vaccination program for senior citizens 70 years of age or older. YonhapBy Bahk Eun-jiAn increasing number of parents here are expressing concerns over the death of a 17-year-old high school student in Incheon two days after receiving the seasonal flu vaccine. The quality of the flu vaccine, which needs to be refrigerated, has already been in question after several shipments were discovered to have been stored at room temperature. Additionally, white particles were found last week in vaccine samples at a public health center in Yeongdeok, North Gyeongsang Province. Consequently, many parents have already been reluctant to let their children get the flu shot. Although the cause of the teen's death has yet to be determined, the flu vaccine project may be halted once again this year if the cause of death is found to be related to the vaccine. Concerns remain over the flu season coinciding with another wave of COVID

Oct 20, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
More parents concerned about safety of flu vaccine
  • Woman found dead after getting flu vaccine shot

Global coronavirus cases surpass 40 million mark

A pedestrian walks past a mural reading "Don't Be Afraid" in Dublin on Oct. 19, 2020. AFPA number of European countries took urgent new measures on Monday to combat a second wave of coronavirus infections, as the World Health Organization blamed the surge in worldwide cases ― now more than 40 million ― on countries' failure to quarantine infected people properly.Ireland and Wales became the first countries on the continent to re-enter lockdown as the number of people who have died from Covid-19 in Europe passed 250,000, according to an AFP tally.Irish prime minister Micheal Martin issued a nationwide "stay at home" order from midnight Wednesday, with all non-essential retail businesses to close and bars and restaurants limited to takeaway service only, although schools will remain open.Wales also announced "firebreak" confinement measures for two weeks, ordering the territory's three million residents to stay at home except for very limited purposes such as exercise or work, and banning people from mixing indoors or outdoors.WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan blamed soaring transm

Oct 20, 2020
Global coronavirus cases surpass 40 million mark

Woman found dead after getting flu vaccine shot

GettyimagesbankA septuagenarian was found dead inside her home in the southwestern province of North Jeolla on Tuesday after getting a flu vaccine shot at a neighborhood clinic the previous day, provincial officials said.The 78-year-old resident of Gochang, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, was discovered dead at her rural home by one of her neighbors around 7:35 a.m.The woman reportedly received a seasonal flu vaccine shot from a neighborhood clinic at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, prompting local quarantine authorities to investigate any causality between her death and the vaccine shot.The vaccine in question is said to be a Boryung Fluvaccine produced by local vaccine producer Boryung Biopharma.The incident came after a teenage boy in Incheon, west of Seoul, died last Friday after being administered a seasonal flu vaccine two days earlier. The cause of the boy's death has not yet been determined, triggering public anxiety over the safety of flu vaccines. Last month, a local drug distributor came under fire for exposing some of its flu vaccine bottles to room temperatures during shipping

Oct 20, 2020
Woman found dead after getting flu vaccine shot
  • Teen dies after getting flu shot; cause of death not yet determined
  • More parents concerned about safety of flu vaccine

Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy: Cambridge study

GettyimagesbankYoung people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found. Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996, are more disillusioned than Generation X, those born between 1965 and 1981, or Baby Boomers born between 1944 and 1964 and the Interwar Generation of 1918-1943. "Across the world, younger generations are not only more dissatisfied with democratic performance than the old, but also more discontented than previous generations at similar life stages," the Cambridge study found. The picture is bad in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. But satisfaction has increased in Germany, South Korea and many of the post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The main reason behind the disillusion with democracy among young people was inequality of wealth and income, the report said, citing figures showing that Millennials make up around a quarter of

Oct 20, 2020
Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy: Cambridge study

New virus cases under 100 for fifth day

People walk past a commercial poster showing K-Pop group BTS at a shopping street in Seoul, Oct. 14, 2020. APSouth Korea's new coronavirus cases rose by double digits for a fifth consecutive day Tuesday, but health authorities remain vigilant over cluster infections at risk-prone facilities such as hospitals.The country added 58 more COVID-19 cases, including 41 domestic infections, raising the total caseload to 25,333, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).The figure marked a drop from 76 daily cases reported Monday and 91 from Sunday. It was also the lowest since 47 added on Friday.Health authorities say that despite the overall slowdown in the new cases, sporadic cluster infections are still lingering throughout the nation, with additional infections being reported from various places including nursing homes and supermarkets.South Korea has been operating the lowest Level 1 social distancing scheme since Oct. 12, as the daily increase of COVID-19 patients is at a manageable level.As South Koreans have gradually returned to their daily routines, the co

Oct 20, 2020
New virus cases under 100 for fifth day

Gov't to resume distributing discount coupons for museums, theaters

Students of Maeyeoul Elementary School in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, enter the school grounds, Monday, while keeping the required distance from each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The government began to allow kindergarteners and students at elementary, middle and high schools to take in-person classes more often in line with eased social distancing guidelines. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeThe government will resume the distribution of discount coupons for museums, live performances, movie theaters and sport facilities later this week to boost domestic consumption that has slowed due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, officials said Monday. The government's discount coupon program is focused on supporting industries hit hard by the virus outbreak and getting the economy back on track.The resumption comes about two months after the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism halted the program following the resurgence of COVID-19 clusters centered on the Seoul metropolitan area in August that led the government to raise the three-tier social distancing guidelines from Level 1 to Level 2

Oct 19, 2020
Gov't to resume distributing discount coupons for museums, theaters

Teen dies after getting flu shot; cause of death not yet determined

GettyimagesbankA teenage boy died after being administered with a seasonal flu vaccine, yet the cause of his death has not yet been determined, health authorities said Monday.The 17-year-old boy in the western port city of Incheon, whose identity has been withheld, died early Friday morning after receiving the flu shot on Wednesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).The KDCA said he was administered with one of the vaccine bottles that were shipped by Shinsung Pharm Co., a distributor of some vaccine bottles that were exposed to room temperature during shipments as part of a nationwide free flu shots program."It is necessary to first determine the cause of his death as no specific side effects were reported after receiving the shot and he passed away after a certain period of time," KCDA Director Jeong Eun-kyeong said during a briefing.The authorities earlier said the mishandled vaccines have passed quality tests and concluded that there is no safety issue. They have also collected some 539,000 doses that were shipped by Shinsung Pharm.Jeong said the

Oct 19, 2020
Teen dies after getting flu shot; cause of death not yet determined
  • Woman found dead after getting flu vaccine shot

Pupils take more in-person classes amid eased social distancing rules

Children wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus play on the sculptures at a park in Seoul, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. APThe Ministry of Education's expansion of in-person classes at schools went into effect Monday amid a growing concern over a widening learning gap and a recent drop in new coronavirus cases.The ministry raised the attendance cap, previously at one-third for elementary and middle schools, and two-thirds at high schools, to two-thirds for all schools on Oct. 11, in line with the government's decision to relax social distancing guidelines nationwide.The ministry said schools in the greater Seoul area, where half of the country's 51 million people live, are required to strictly follow the new mandate, while those in the rest of the country will have more leeway to adjust attendance caps depending on the seriousness of the pandemic.In the southwestern city of Gwangju, for example, elementary and high schools with no more than 900 students and middle school with no more than 800 students are exempt from the attendance cap requirements. Thus,

Oct 19, 2020
Pupils take more in-person classes amid eased social distancing rules
  • New virus cases under 100 for fourth day

New virus cases under 100 for fourth day

People wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus pass by a statue with a face mask at a park in Seoul, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. AP South Korea's new coronavirus cases rose by double digits for a fourth consecutive day Monday, but sporadic cluster infections at nursing homes continued to hamper the country's efforts to stem further spread of COVID-19.The country added 76 more COVID-19 cases, including 50 domestic infections, raising the total caseload to 25,275, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).The figure marked a drop from 91 daily cases reported Sunday but a slight rise from 73 on Saturday. New virus cases fell below the 50 mark for the first time since Sept. 29 on Friday.South Korea lowered its social distancing scheme to the lowest level last week as a long holiday, which ran from late September to early this month, did not lead to another spike in new virus cases. Under the eased restrictions, public facilities, as well as bars and clubs, are allowed to operate normally on the condition that infection prevention

Oct 19, 2020
New virus cases under 100 for fourth day
  • Pupils take more in-person classes amid eased social distancing rules

Korea sees increase in male nurses

By Bahk Eun-jiWhile nursing professionals still remain predominately female, the number of male nurses has steadily been growing in recent years. The concept of male nurses is nothing new, but the trend is obviously set to accelerate. Figures show that men in nursing are increasing every year ― 3,460, graduated from the 203 nursing colleges across the country in 2019. According to the Korean Nurses Association (KNA), men comprised 14.7 percent of all successful test takers of the national nursing exams this year. Among a total of 21,582 test applicants, 3,179 men passed. The figure is far above the 3.36 percent recorded back in 2008. Of the total 13,330 applicants for the exam at the time, only 449 were men. Over the last 13 years, the number and proportion of male applicants who passed the exam has increased each year.And for the first time, the number of male nurses in Korea has surpassed 20,000 since licenses for male nurses were first issued in 1962, reaching 21,042. “Male nurses, who have been considered rare in this field, are also recognized as proud professionals,&rdquo

Oct 19, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
Korea sees increase in male nurses
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